2015 UHD player prices?

[XJF]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wright

Seems the Samsung is $399.99, bargain

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-ewCnohq...UBD-K8500.html

A LOT cheaper than first wave of Blu-Ray players.

[Pieter V]

As long those UHD players are silent in operation. Hard to find these days a silent one. Pff.

[Mr. Cinema]

That's not bad at all. I believe Samsung's first BD player (BDP1000?) was around $799.

[Arkadin]

the Panny player released in japan in November would cost $3,300 USD I just read.
OUCH!!

[spectre08]

Originally Posted by Arkadin

the Panny player released in japan in November would cost $3,300 USD I just read.
OUCH!!

we discussed this earlier.

logically I'm thinking their only real target for that player was content creators themselves, since there's no actual UHD blu-rays available to play with it.

The only people who'd want to buy that right now are people are going to be creating disks and need a player to test them in, those kinds of people probably wouldn't balk at the price tag too much.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by XJF

A LOT cheaper than first wave of Blu-Ray players.

Indeedy, because it's tech that's building on existing Blu-ray architecture, it's nothing like the leap that DVD was to HD DVD/BD. Samsung's players are crap anyway IMO but even so, I knew that the UHD player prices weren't gonna be nearer the $1000 as some were claiming; the tech is evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

[Opips3]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Indeedy, because it's tech that's building on existing Blu-ray architecture, it's nothing like the leap that DVD was to HD DVD/BD. Samsung's players are crap anyway IMO but even so, I knew that the UHD player prices weren't gonna be nearer the $1000 as some were claiming; the tech is evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

You mean evolution physical media to digitalHD steam or download.

Fade physical media...

[krisakarcher]

Supposedly the 399 price is only for the preorder. The price will go up to 499 after that.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by XJF

A LOT cheaper than first wave of Blu-Ray players.

Yep I have been buying old home cinema magazines off ebay of late and one came yesterday.
It had a bit about CES 97 and how the dvd players will vary in price and how Sony are being quiet and may launch at $1000


How times change...

Or not if your Sony

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

Yep I have been buying old home cinema magazines off ebay of late and one came yesterday.
It had a bit about CES 97 and how the dvd players will vary in price and how Sony are being quiet and may launch at $1000


How times change...

Or not if your Sony

I threw all mine out when I moved house, I figured what was the bloody point? I kept one issue of HCC about Phantom Menace and Dolby EX, that's it.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I threw all mine out when I moved house, I figured what was the bloody point? I kept one issue of HCC about Phantom Menace and Dolby EX, that's it.

I lost all my home entertainment issues in a move, I have all my HCC's tho.
I have loved going back reading LD reviews and them speculating on the future of tech

[meremortal]

$399's a very fair price for brand new tech. However, it's a bit more than I'd like to pay for a starter player that may not have all the kinks worked out. I'd also prefer to get a second gen model as I remember how wonky the earlier players were for hd dvd and perhaps blu. But with pre-order prices on new discs being close to blu prices, I may still stock up on some of the new titles and watch the blu until I grab a player and display. It'd also be nice to go the projector route for 4k to get the most out of the format, but it may be a while until we see sub $1k prices on a decent one. So in other words, I may be following the discussions for a while before I actually get to start watching 4k content.

[Pieter V]

Sony's UHP-H1 will also be 400 euros.

[MisterXDTV]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

Sony's UHP-H1 will also be 400 euros.

That's not an UHD BD disc player...